here's what I love about blogging

It's amazing writing practice. Personal and informal enough to circumvent perfectionism: I'll blog in 2 minutes a piece that I would labor over for 2 days if it was going to be "published" or performed. Public enough to filter out narcissism, impose some quality control. My postings don't have to be my best writing, but they do have to be tight, coherent, relevant. It's impossible to blog without the underlying thought "And my point is?"

I said to my friend Lisa, one of the finest and funniest writers of my acquaintance, yesterday: "Blogging has got me writing better and faster than I ever have before."